Seventeen new cases of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus strain have been confirmed, as Australian health officials keep an eye on developments in the central Chinese city of Wuhan | rachelclun
Australian health officials are closely monitoring developments in China, after 17 new cases of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus strain were confirmed.
“All confirmed reports cases have so far been people who have been in Wuhan, or visited Wuhan. Whilst there have been two deaths, one was a person with significant other medical conditions,” he said.Associate Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott, an expert in the spread and control of infectious diseases, said health officials were “operating in the dark to a certain degree” because it was unclear exactly how the virus was spreading.
The World Health Organisation said much remained to be learnt about the new virus 2019-nCoV, including the clinical symptoms of the disease and exactly how far it has spread. The source of the virus also remains unknown.travelling from Wuhan. However Professor Murphy said Australia already has “well established mechanisms” in place to respond to sick travellers.
Given there are direct flights from Wuhan to Sydney, Associate Professor Kamradt-Scott said the ideal situation would be to make all those travellers fill out a questionnaire about their health symptoms on arrival and provide them with information about who to contact in the event symptoms appear later.Loading
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